The Introduction starts with offering definitions of the central 4E features, that is, the features
of embodied, embedded, enacted, and extended cognition. To set the stage, we sketch the …

Should cognitive scientists be any more embarrassed about their lack of a discipline-fixing
definition of cognition than biologists are about their inability to define “life”? My answer is …

Most scientific theories of consciousness are challenging to apply outside the human case
insofar as non‐human systems (both biological and artificial) are unlikely to implement …

This article connects philosophical debates about cognitive enhancement and situated
cognition. It does so by focusing on moral aspects of enhancing our cognitive abilities with …

Abstract In 'Computing Machinery and Intelligence', Turing, sceptical of the question 'Can
machines think?', quickly replaces it with an experimentally verifiable test: the imitation …

Behavioural flexibility is often treated as the gold standard of evidence for more
sophisticated or complex forms of animal cognition, such as planning, metacognition and …

In this paper, I argue that computationalism is a progressive research tradition. Its
metaphysical assumptions are that nervous systems are computational, and that information …

Behavioral flexibility is considered an important trait for adapting to environmental change,
but it is unclear what it is, how it works, and whether it is a problem solving ability. I …

This paper criticizes the role of intuition-based ascriptions of cognition that are closely
related to the ascription of mind. This practice hinders the explication of a clear and stable …

A comprehensive account of cognitive scaffolding and its significance for understanding
mental disorders. In Scaffolded Minds, Somogy Varga offers a novel account of cognitive …